Successful treatment of refractory adult onset Still's disease with rituximab [4]

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1117-1118

  Ahmadi Simab, K ^a   Lamprecht, P ^a   Jankowiak, C ^a   Gross, W L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; ETANERCEPT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INFLIXIMAB; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESPONSE; HUMAN; LETTER; POLYARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; INTERLEUKIN-1; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET;

EID: 33746551122     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2005.047621     Document Type: Letter

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